Paulding-Carroll-Haralson County GaArchives Obituaries.....McBrayer, Andrew Erwin October 29, 1889
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Carroll Free Press Nov. 8, 1889
From the Carroll Free Press November 8, 1889:
The Late Andrew E. McBrayer
Mr. Andrew Erwin McBrayer, one of the oldest citizens of this section,
died at his home near Draketown, Ga., Ocotober 29, 1889.
He settled on Sweetwater Creek, near Villa Rica, more than sixty years
ago. He raised a large family, of whom six sons and two daughters are living
in this community.
Through all his long life he was respected and honored by all who knew
him. A self-reliant man who set no traps to catch success but went straight
on in his plain duty; his whole life characterized by a remarkable fidelity to
principle.
When about to die he called his children around him and advised them to
live in this life for a better life in eternity. Only a few minutes before he
died he said: "Boys, I can help you no more. Do right."
It was fitting that the last words of "Andy" McBrayer shoud be "do
right." The watch words of his life, the "key note" of a character upon which
no stain of dishonesty rests. His life was a rebuke to the evil, an
inspiration to the upright. Though gone from earth we cannot say he is dead.
Such men never die. He assisted all his children in getting comfortable homes
and left an estate to be divided among them; but the inheritance left to them
of which they have reason to be proud, prouder than all else, is the
inheritance of a good name. "As honest as Andy McBrayer," was considered in
the community in which he lived as the highest attainment of integrity and to
be His friend was a recommendation to any man.
Though not a member of the church and never a professing christian---
this, perhaps, the only serious mistake of his life; for his life, useful as
it was, might have been infinitely more so, had he openly and before man
acknowledged his God. Yet, it seems impossible that he could have lived as he
did had he not been influenced by the grace of God, and those who knew him
best, and loved him most, can but believe that he whose rule of action through
life was "DO RIGHT" not for policy's sake but because it was right; is safe--
resting in a country inhabited by those who in this life "walked uprightly,
worked righteousness and spoke the truth in their hearts." He loved his own
southern land and native state with a devotion which only a true patriot can
love.
Living as he did near the lines of Carroll, Paulding and Haralson
counties each claimed him as her citizen and they all mourn together over
their loss.
His life and character are the heritage alike of his children, his
community, his county, his state, and his country--and they are poorer when he
is gone. Sleep on, thou pure patriot, upright man.
When those who knew him, respected him and honored him, pass the grave of
his sleeping they will say: "Here lies a man who never wronged his fellow
man." W.B.C.
Villa Rica, Ga., Nov. 4th, 1889
Haralson Banner and Paulding New Era please copy.
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